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horriblePencilist posted:Thanks for the tips! Yeah, I think I stopped before ball joint pieces were common. Luckily, my brother got several sets that have the clicking ones, so that should be good. I really wish I could find the single balls though... That would be useful. Off to bricklink with you: http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?q=57909b I see a US seller with 580 of them for sale, 3 cents each (which is a ridiculous low price for a single lego brick).
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There also 6862, Superman vs.Power Armor Lex, which is a solid $20 ball and socket mech with a couple awesome minifigs.
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Aim for the stars, friend.
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Krazyface posted:The new modular's been announced, officially this time. There's a bunch of really detailed interior pictures here. And there's been some sort of nuclear explosion according to that paper!?! And everything costs 100 bucks?!?! Lego Obama! 
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rickiep00h posted:Aim for the stars, friend. I really love this guy's work. I found his flickr yesterday and was just blown away. Here's my progress on a mech I'm working on right now. Again, I'm just using whatever colors and parts I can find, but I'm already learning a ton of tricks.  I'm currently in the middle of sorting my bricks. What methods and containers do you guys use? I'm getting sick of those giant boxes where you have to search for half an hour. edit: Jesus I have a lot of gray parts. I blame George Lucas! horriblePencilist fucked around with this message at 11:33 on Nov 25, 2014 |
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horriblePencilist posted:
Sort by type and size, do not under any circumstance sort by color. It is much easier to find a black 2x4 brick in a tub of many colors of 2x2, 2x3, 2x4 etc bricks than it is to find it in a tub full of plates, wedges, pins, tiles etc of the same color. How many "categories" you want is up to you, there are like 17000 different Lego pieces in hundreds of categories. I have sorted into: -Plates that are 1 wide and any length 4 or longer -Plates that are 2 wide and any length 4 or longer -Plates that are larger than 2x4 -All 1x2, 1x3, 1x4, 2x2, 2x3, 2x4 plates (All of the above for bricks as well) -Bricks with angles (e.g. roof tiles) -Plates with angles (wedges and wings) -Round thin things (technic pins, bars) etc The specialization of your sorting method only depends on how much space you have in your home and how much effort you put into it. Have a look here for the different categories of parts.
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Where do you keep your flats? I'm thinking I should keep them separate from the plates, but I'm not sure.
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horriblePencilist posted:Where do you keep your flats? I'm thinking I should keep them separate from the plates, but I'm not sure. Each of the lines i wrote is a different "tub" of Lego, sorry if that wasn't clear. By "flats" i suppose you mean plates that are just 1-2 studs wide? That would be this tub: "-All 1x2, 1x3, 1x4, 2x2, 2x3, 2x4 plates" More general sorting guidelines: Avoid big size differences in parts. Dont mix 6x16 plates with 2x2 plates. When sorting for storage you want to fragment your parts as much as possible, for easier retrieval. However, when building something, particularly from an official set (ie you are pouring the contents into tubs) just go by general shape and size. I recently built the UCS Millennium Falcon, and it was sorted with the following priority: -Any beam and 2-stud-wide flat 10 studs or longer -Any plate 4x4 or larger, and wedges/wings 4+ studs wide -All dark bluish gray and black pieces -All Non-gray/black pieces (white, tan, red, dark red, transblue, yellow) -All light bluish gray flats 2x2 or larger, flats 1x3 or larger, and beams 1x3 or larger -All other pieces The "all other pieces" tub had a huge array of different parts, and a huge amount of parts of different shapes and sizes in general. (2x2 round brick, 45 deg slopes, 33 deg slopes, arches, bars, pins, all kinds of small doodads. Maybe around 2000 pieces, with 100-130 different ones? Surprisingly it was the easiest tub to find parts in, as the tiny pieces would fall to the bottom so whenever i needed a tap or 1x1 round plate or something i just dug my way to the bottom and there was a layer of them right there. Or if i needed a 2x2 round brick i went to the middle of the tub  Anyways, the point is that it is not that difficult to find certain pieces hidden among a huge amount of other pieces, as long as they look quite different. Finding that 1x4 among all the 1x3s, 1x4s, 1x6s and 1x8s however can be difficult.Wow i just  'ed on about sorting Legos...
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The Birds idea set is already revealed. $45, 580 pieces, comes out in January as a set with 3 birds:
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Those are really good models, but my enthusiasm level is basically zero. Guess it's a good source of wing plates in odd colors.. shame they didn't make the yellow flower with left and right wedges though.
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Nov 25, 2014 22:27
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The birds look like they will be interesting to build. Really no flat base.
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$45 for 580 pieces is a bit much, right? Like, well above the average?
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What, no That's way less than ten cents a piece, $45 for 450 pieces would be "standard".
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Yeah, here's a $70 Star Wars set with less pieces: http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Jek-14-s-Stealth-Starfighter-75018
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smackfu posted:Yeah, here's a $70 Star Wars set with less pieces: http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Jek-14-s-Stealth-Starfighter-75018 Licensed sets, Star Wars in particular, are an outlier due to licensing costs being bundled into price. But anything less than 10 cents a piece is considered "good"
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So apparently the Lego video for the Detective Agency has a tiny shot of what mayyyyy be the Helicarrier. http://lego.gizmodo.com/did-lego-leak-the-rumored-shield-helicarrier-1662869026
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ixnay posted:The Birds idea set is already revealed. $45, 580 pieces, comes out in January as a set with 3 birds: How are they connecting that flower to the stem, assuming they're using approved methods? Is there one of those "tail" pieces that end in anything besides a tapering tip?
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Random article on the BBC today about lego sets being uncreative and not requiring many parts..? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29992974 I am glad most of the commentators are totally against that point, and there is some interesting info about the 2000's era. They reported £386m this year, which is mad. Apparently they are only behind Hasbro in terms of the largest toy company in the world. It costs £36k ($50k) to set up a new mold and produce a newly shaped part for mass production.
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 The goblin and the evil mage look so cool!
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Tentacle face is pretty boss too. That hotdog is gonna resell for a million dollars. Looks like a pretty easy series to find by bag squishing, which is good.
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gently caress I still need to get any of S12 Lego is getting so good at pumping out the sets that I am starting to kind of get annoyed. First world Lego nerd problem.
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Burger King versus Hotdog Man! Pretty decent series, although the space guy seems pretty 
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Oh sweet, brown afro. Now we need some non-Jack Sparrow dreads, Lego.
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Gabriel Pope posted:Burger King versus Hotdog Man! The torso armor looks like a new piece though, its not the harness thing they stuck on the last three.
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That series looks awesome. With a little customization, you could totally make a Zoidberg out of that alien.
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Saint Sputnik posted:The torso armor looks like a new piece though, its not the harness thing they stuck on the last three. I think its the Kryptonian armour from the Man of Steel sets.
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I could do with the hot dog guy and not much else. I wish they would space these out more. Does anyone have a series #12 gamer guy to trade or sell?
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That hot dog guy is going to be so easy to feel out it is going to be sold out at like every store within the first day.
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ElwoodCuse posted:I could do with the hot dog guy and not much else. I wish they would space these out more. Yep. You in the states? Pig guy is the only one I need from that series so I'd do a straight trade for that. e: I keep meaning to post a couple spaceships I made the other week. I can't get enough over-engineered moving parts!    
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Rad ships, man. Working through my legos and it's going... okay. I bought some storage containers to put away some pieces.I still haven't found any suitable containers for the bigger pieces, though.  The mech is doing well too. The legs are giving me a headache, though.  Sorting my Legos has it's benifits, though. I'm really digging building small things.   
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Does anyone know what type of fabric the capes, etc, are made out of?
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Pretty sure it's acrylic coated broadcloth. If you're looking at making your own, broadcloth and acrylic medium are both easy to come by and cheap.
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Never not post spaceships I finally broke down a Cosmic Fleet Voyager and my old X-Wing (bought at the onset of my dark ages and soon abandoned) and combined it with a whole bunch of used classic space Lego. This is the first thing I'm building, mostly to try out some upside down techniques. The front is made from one of those classic spaceship cockpit bottoms together with some boat hull piece, held in place upside down using the wing joints from the X-Wing. The cockpit is one of those city double windows that were widely used in classic space.   It's ugly, overpowered, a mix of scales and desperately needing a giant fuckoff gun hanging from the nose. That's what I'm building next. 
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ixnay posted:The Birds idea set is already revealed. $45, 580 pieces, comes out in January as a set with 3 birds: These are the best Lego sets I've seen in years and I'm probably going to buy several knowing me. 
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Anyone have instructions / piece list to make a new radar dish for the the Falcon, based on the Force Awakens trailer? I want to (temporarily) swap the dish on my 7965.
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Ville Valo posted:Anyone have instructions / piece list to make a new radar dish for the the Falcon, based on the Force Awakens trailer? I want to (temporarily) swap the dish on my 7965. No piece list, but the one I just built is 3x6. Everything else looked too tall or too wide. The problem is with 7965 itself. Even after lengthening and widening the mandibles myself, the whole thing still looks off. The new dish just makes the off proportions even more obvious. Hopefully next year we get a better large Falcon. Big Mean Jerk fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Nov 29, 2014 |
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Speaking of the Force Awakens, I can't wait to pick up a lego version of the new X-wing. That thing looks so dope.
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Phrosphor posted:Bird LEGO I bet MY GIRLFRIEND will even let me put these somewhere besides the LEGO dungeon!
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